Nervi nel 1899

Nervi nel 1899

• The Emiliani Fathers regain possession of the building occupied since 1894 by the "". On 1 September 1899, the Emiliani College, still existing today, begins its activities • In January, the new electric tramway line connecting Nervi to Genoa is inaugurated • Among the eminent figures staying in Nervi, noted at the Grand Hotel Eden: Sir Robert Peel and Family; the Countess Visconti Guidobono of London; Lady Dormer at the Grand Hotel: Countess Louisa Jaaffe of Vienna; Mme la Baronne de Pujet-Pusret at the Hotel Victoria: Baroness I. von Verschuer at the Hotel Sanitas (new): Count Chigi of Siena. Returning to their villas are Her Highness Princess Lady Brooke, Ranée of Sarawak, generous benefactor of poor children, and Baron Trauttemberg • November - The Caffé Milano is inaugurated in the new building overlooking Via V. Emanuele. Rooms richly decorated with good taste and a splendid, grand billiard hall. (This is the café that only recently changed its name to Café Saker, ed.)

23/1 - Actor Humphrey Bogart is born 24/1 - The pneumatic tyre is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan 6/3 - Aspirin is patented by Bayer 27/3 - First radio transmission by Marconi between England and France 24/5 - First auto workshop in Boston 3/6 - Johann Strauss dies 21/6 - Ernest Hemingway is born in Oak Park, Ill. 11/7 - FIAT is founded in Turin and begins production of the 3.1/2 HP 12/7 - Dreyfus is rehabilitated and decorated 24/8 - Jorge Luis Borges is born in Buenos Aires 12/10 - The Anglo-Boer War begins - Leo Tolstoy publishes Resurrection